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Re-creating the Land of the Lenape ; Slide show teaches children about N.J.'s earliest residents
2003
Overview
[John Kraft] caters his presentation primarily to children. It allows them to learn about the original inhabitants of \"Lenape Hoking,\" which means Land of the Lenape - now the state of New Jersey. It focuses on the life and culture of the Lenape, introducing and demonstrating their dress, marriage rites, home construction, foods, and herbal medicines, and what they did for fun. Kraft then summarized a long and complex relationship in which problems developed as more and more people voyaged across the Atlantic to the New World. Along with all their goods and ideas, Europeans brought diseases that killed more than 90 percent of the Lenape, who had no physical immunity against them. The introduction of alcohol in the Lenape community aggravated the disaster and death toll - by 1750, less than one of every 100 residents was Lenape. Then, when the fur trade died off, the Lenape were seen as a useless presence. The country's wars of independence and subsequent expansion into Native American homelands killed off or drove the majority of surviving Lenape westward. Most now reside in Oklahoma and in Canada.
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Gannett Media Corp
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